AFIRM School

The official account of AFIRM: the ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search.

[AFIRM School @afirm_school]

Very excited to have world-class IR & DM researchers for our school in Cape Town ...

#afirm2020

[Daniela Massiceti @dannimassi]

Microsoft Africa Research Institute has opened in Kenya and is looking to hire African ML/NLP/HCI (and other) researchers! Super excited to see @MSFTResearch moving onto the continent! #AfricanML @DeepIndaba 🧑🏾‍💻👩🏿‍💻👩🏼‍💻 https://t.co/OkP40XtcH1

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

Video lecture: "Learning to Rank for IR with Neural Networks" by yours truly, @nick_craswell, @xxEmineYilmazxx, and @spacemanidol at @afirm_school. #AFIRM2020
https://t.co/jeUMXInFN1

[AFIRM School @afirm_school]

The lecture videos of #AFIRM2020 are becoming available over time on AFIRM 2020 playlist at: https://t.co/bW3lgvYxh5.

[AFIRM School @afirm_school]

We have set up a dedicated YouTube channel for #AFIRM at https://t.co/B3eq08pJyl.

[Ahmed Olanrewaju @abono2000]

@afirm_school Choosing a research path is taking forever, there was just too much to learn at #afirm2020. Once again thanks so much @BenCarterette @slumou @tamer_elsayed

[Ben Carterette @BenCarterette]

Day 5. #afirm2020 closed with lectures on explainable AI and deep learning, and a panel of attendees.

[Lighton Phiri @lightonphiri]

Back in #Zambia after an intensive and stimulating #afirm2020 summer school. A million thank yous to the organisers and instructors [...]

[Ahmed Olanrewaju @abono2000]

So happy to be part of the #afirm2020 community. We appreciate all our instructors, sponsors and the wonderful participants across Africa. Hope to welcome see more research collaborations across Africa. See you at all #afirm2021
Thanks so much @afirm_school @UCT_news

[Hussein Suleman @slumou]

Panel discussion for general feedback on this and future summer schools #afirm2020

[Nicola Ferro @frrncl]

.@tamer_elsayed chairing the #afirm2020 panel on ML/IR/DM research inAfrica

[Lighton Phiri @lightonphiri]

Panel Discussion on Research in #ML for #IR and DM in #Africa #AFIRM2020

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

Passionate panel session to conclude the official program for #AFIRM2020.

[Ahmed Olanrewaju @abono2000]

Explainable AI presented by Fosca Giannotti and Dino Pedereschi (2 love birds Professors of Computer Science. Thanks so much @afirm_school
#afirm2020

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

The slides for the "Learning to rank with neural networks" lectures are available online if you want to follow along. #AFIRM2020
https://t.co/xgdRUDy08Q

[Hussein Suleman @slumou]

Fosca Giannotti talks about why we need to explain the outcomes of AI algorithms #afirm2020

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

Note that a lot of the content we are presenting today is based on the book "An introduction to neural information retrieval" which you can download for free online. #AFIRM2020
https://t.co/3O9c4u34er

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

Bias-variance tradeoff in the Deep Learning era. #AFIRM2020

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

Next up: @xxEmineYilmazxx on the fundamentals of learning to rank for IR. #AFIRM2020

[Hussein Suleman @slumou]

Dino Pedreschi discusses the much publicised AI bias in criminal risk of black people #afirm2020